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The best Jukola tactics is usually to get a good start in the first part of the relay, because then the next runners will have faster runners around them when running their legs. But how high up does your team need to be after the first leg to be able ...

The routechoice comparison for the EOC 2008 Middle Final is again done in a way which gives you the possibility to think through each leg before seeing how the World Elite did it – similar to the popular Route to Christmas series here at World of O. This means that ...

The routechoice comparison for the EOC 2008 Middle Final is again done in a way which gives you the possibility to think through each leg before seeing how the World Elite did it – similar to the popular Route to Christmas series here at World of O. This means that ...

Here grouping graphics for the Middle Qualification at EOC 2008 is given. Again, a lot of grouping is seen. Note! Colored boxes in the below figures show that two runners have been within 15 seconds of each other at a control. Boxed in the same color show that two runners ...

Heated discussions have errupted after the grouping analysis of the Long Final and Long Qualification published at World of O the last days (see e.g. in the comments section of this article). The present article gives a similar analysis of the EOC Middle Final – again provided by Henning Spjelkavik ...

In the final day of the EOC 2008 Sweden and Russia took home the Gold medals in the Relay. The Swedish team with Lina Persson, Emma Engstrand and Helena Jansson finished only 12 seconds ahead of the Russian Silver medalists. In the mens class Russia took the gold medal with ...

Gueorgiou is still the King of Middle Distance – and Finland took the Triple in the womens class with Heli Jukkola, Merja Rantanen and Minna Kauppi. A very popular silver medal in the mens class to home runner Martin Sirmais. Bronze in the mens class went to Pasi Ikonen – ...

Matthias Müller (SUI), Valentin Novikov (RUS), Thierry Gueorgiou (FRA), Helena Jansson (SWE), Minna Kauppi (FIN) and Emma Engstrand (SWE) were the heat winners in todays EOC Middle Qualification in Latvia. Again several of the outsiders went out already in the qualification – among them the reigning World Champion over the ...

Would you do the same choices as the best orienteers in Europe? The routechoice comparison for the EOC 2008 Long Final is done in a way which gives you the possibility to think through each leg before seeing how the World Elite did it – similar to the popular Route ...

– The long final yesterday was one of the technically most demanding long distance races I have ever run, Eva Jurenika writes at her homepage. Several of the runners have analyzed their races and written about it in their Blogs. Below many of the statements are collected. Statements Some statements ...